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Why Dreaming Big Isn’t Enough

Beyond Philosophy

But I see the same thing in the businesses we help at our customer experience consultancy. Either the employees immediately recognize the “goal” as a meaningless mission statement that they feel no particular desire to follow through on, or they try to “wow” everyone and fail, leading to poor morale and a perception that they’ve failed.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles for the Week of November 26, 2018

ShepHyken

Busting 3 Massive Myths About Employee Engagement by Christine Comaford. Forbes) There’s a lot of buzz about employee engagement these days. But the sad truth is that engagement stats worldwide are still dreadfully low. To Improve Customer Experience, Start With Morale, Not Technology, Feds Say by Tom Shoop.

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To Get Loyal Customers, Start with Loyal Employees

Beyond Philosophy

Start by engaging the employees. In our customer experience consultancy, we’ve found that there’s often little connection between the concept of employee loyalty and customer loyalty, and that’s a big mistake. Researchers have found that an engaged employee is essential to success in the global economy.

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Customers Have Life Cycles. Guess What? So Do Employees! Here’s Why That’s So Important

Beyond Philosophy

Career Development : In this stage, the employee matures in his/her role in the organization. The challenges in this stage are employee engagement and retention. Termination : In this final stage, sometimes referred to as “transition,” the employee leaves the organization.

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Guest Blog: Left Brain, Right Brain: Aligning Internal Culture and Customer Analytics

ShepHyken

If the culture is misaligned, though – if priorities are skewed, if there is distrust between leadership and employees, if there are significant obstacles to cooperation across departments, if employees don’t feel valued and morale is low – the impact on customer service is direct and immediate.

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Multiple Workstyles May Signal the Need for New Compensation Plans at Many US Contact Centers

Taylor Reach Group

This way, wages are fair across the board, consistent, and avoid future morale issues among peers. It’s easy for managers to justify lower wages for remote employees: no commute time or travel expenses, reduced stress, and improved work-life balance. Reduced wages ultimately creates workforce friction.

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Two Surefire Mistakes to Avoid

Taylor Reach Group

When agents recognize that their income and/or upward mobility is threatened, their morale, engagement and employee satisfaction will drop, as will their commitment to helping customers. Happy employees are required to create happy customers. Make your employees unhappy at your peril.